Considerazioni sulla legge di Saussure-Fortunatov : limiti applicativi

Abstract

The article offers an overview of the so-called Saussdure-Fortunatov's law. Introducing the term of "protraction" (shift of the accent from non acute syllable to the following acute one, for example: rañk + -ā >*rañkā > *rañkā > rankà), the author shows the application of the law in the nominal flexion paradigms, including the dual number and the peculiar locative forms. While doing this, he also argues that there are cases in which the law in question seems to be bypassed, namely in the -o and -e stem Dative plural, the -o and -a stem Locative plural, the -o and -e stem Dative dual and some secondary forms of the Locative.[...]